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Mad Men & The Electric Circus

Since its inception, Mad Men has been tossing out some major poster references. My favorite, however, is perhaps the most random – last season Joan and her Mary Kay saleslady friend Kate decided to go wild in downtown Manhattan nowhere other than The Electric Circus.

While the episode didn’t really delve too deeply into what exactly The Electric Circus was, we were certainly given the idea of a womb-like psychedelic den, like a lavalamp inside a conch shell.

In truth, The Electric Circus looked more like this

It was an eccentric nightclub down on St Marks Place, with the long-winded tagline of “play games, dress as you like, dance, sit, think, tune in and turn on.” The entertainment ran the gamut from The Velvet Underground and The Allman Brothers to circus performers and home movie light shows.